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Yuck, toad is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever used and I had the enterprise version that was like $1,000+ a license and it was still horrible. I can't imagine how bad the freeware version is.
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Chris MarisicJul 15 '09 at 16:39

Edit: @squillman - thanks for the heads up. I can't comment yet, but I've just spent ages working on these, and just trying to make sure they get included in lists of free tools, seeing as I'm giving them away! :)

Just a heads up, someone flagged this as spam (which generates a downvote). Generally it's not good practice here to advertise your company, that's my guess as to the reason for the flag.
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squillmanJan 22 '10 at 16:27

At least he's not trying to hide the connection, unlike a few others on this site.
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John GardeniersJan 22 '10 at 18:43

I would like to add to the list SQL Everywhere by Atlantis Interactive - even its free edition is very helpful for both database developers and administrators. I liked the most the object search feature and the intellisense, code snippets suport. The tool is very customizable, too.

It's not quite how I'd design a SQL UI, but it's reasonable and open source. And it now builds on win32!

Package: mergeant
Description: GNOME Database admin tool GUI for GNOME2
Mergeant is a program which helps administer a DBMS database using the
gnome-db framework. Basically, it memorizes all the structure of the database,
and some queries, and does the SQL queries instead of the user (not having to
type all over again those SQL commands, although it is still possible to do
so).